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there's dramatic testimony from rachel jeantel. on a lead investigator in the case testifies. a re-enactment of the scuffle. the state examiner takes the stand and says the injuries were minor. martin's brother and mother testify. plan particular screams are heard on 911 tapes were from trayvon. last monday, five witnesses testified for the defense. the voice belongs to zimmerman. zimmerman's family also said it was him. the next day, a forensic expert says the evidence supports zimmerman's story. the defense rests on wednesday. george zimmerman tells the judge that he won't take the stand. that the prosecution gets closing arguments. the judge says she will allow the jury to consider the lesser charge of manslaughter but rules out third-degree murder. finally, yesterday, the defense delivers its closing arguments. the judge gives the jury her final instructions and deliberations get under way. >> here's what we know about the six-member all-women jury. a juror number one, hispanic nurse with several children and she lived in chicago at the time of the shooting. juror number t
there's dramatic testimony from rachel jeantel. on a lead investigator in the case testifies. a re-enactment of the scuffle. the state examiner takes the stand and says the injuries were minor. martin's brother and mother testify. plan particular screams are heard on 911 tapes were from trayvon. last monday, five witnesses testified for the defense. the voice belongs to zimmerman. zimmerman's family also said it was him. the next day, a forensic expert says the evidence supports zimmerman's...
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certainly, they didn't include in the an mission the insights of his friend rachel jeantel. she said she heard trayvon screaming get off, get off but the animation doesn't show that. the defense wants to introduce it, the prosecution says it's absolutely unfair and the jurors will play it over and over again in the jury room and convince themselves to believe zimmerman. >>> a former florida circuit court judge and the host of judge alex. judge alex, this is getting down to the real nitty gritty, isn't it? >> yes. >> this animation video, it's pure property -- propaganda isn't it? >> they want to tell the story they believe happened. so for the prosecution to get in and say well, this doesn't have the parts we think happened, of course it doesn't. if you create our own animation, you want put in trayvon martin zimmerman because that's the defense theory, not yours. still i think it should come in as a demonstrative aid. there are holes to be filled because some things haven't been testified to. >> this evidence from vincent demayo, he's obviously incredibly experienced but th
certainly, they didn't include in the an mission the insights of his friend rachel jeantel. she said she heard trayvon screaming get off, get off but the animation doesn't show that. the defense wants to introduce it, the prosecution says it's absolutely unfair and the jurors will play it over and over again in the jury room and convince themselves to believe zimmerman. >>> a former florida circuit court judge and the host of judge alex. judge alex, this is getting down to the real...
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the instagram -- in relation to rachel jeantel. didn't appear to be at his best or appeared to be an angry, aggressi aggressive, attacking type of person. but he's still a very good attorney and you have that play of personalities, mark o'mara's very different. i think -- well, the results speak for themselves. >> let's talk about -- he talked about the community here but the larger community and also people inside the legal community, as well. you know mark o'mara and these guys, don west, as well. did you refer mark o'mara for this case? >> you were supposed to be handling the case, weren't you? >> supposed is the big word. i turned it down twice. i got a call and a release and i got a call of george zimmerman when this case was initially under investigation. i turned it down. and then after he brought in two other lawyers that quickly were dismissed, remember the debacle on the courthouse steps, i then got a call of a friend of his and i said, no. i had signed a contract with cnn. i think i made the better of the choices. in all
the instagram -- in relation to rachel jeantel. didn't appear to be at his best or appeared to be an angry, aggressi aggressive, attacking type of person. but he's still a very good attorney and you have that play of personalities, mark o'mara's very different. i think -- well, the results speak for themselves. >> let's talk about -- he talked about the community here but the larger community and also people inside the legal community, as well. you know mark o'mara and these guys, don...
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>> here's how i think about rachel jeantel myself. i think that she was a reluctant witness who didn't want to be there. i think her mom and ms. fulton got together and said something like, you need to go tell this woman what happened to her son and do it now. i think that's what happened. >> reporter: how much was actual fact do you think from her testimony? >> i think what happened was once she was put in the position of having to talk, we know that what she did was -- was smooth over a lot of the rough spots of what trayvon was talking to her about. we know that she didn't talk about the -- the racist terms he maybe used, the colorful language that he may have used. i think what she did was just give a sanitized version to mom. because, after all, i think she was being sensitive to ms. fulton having just lost her son. i think ms. jeantel came across as being not wanting to be there. i think she had a bit of an attitude because she was there. i don't think she took very kindly to the way mr. west was examining her. >> reporter: i th
>> here's how i think about rachel jeantel myself. i think that she was a reluctant witness who didn't want to be there. i think her mom and ms. fulton got together and said something like, you need to go tell this woman what happened to her son and do it now. i think that's what happened. >> reporter: how much was actual fact do you think from her testimony? >> i think what happened was once she was put in the position of having to talk, we know that what she did was -- was...
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. >> and, of course, the star witness for the prosecution, rachel jeantel, trayvon martin's friend, who was defiant and later criticized for her attitude in court. we want to warn you, some of the language you're about to hear may be offensive. >> describe iing the person is t made you think it was racial? >> yes. >> and that's because he described him as a creepy ass cracker? >> yes. >> so it was racial, but it was because trayvon martin put race in this? >> no. >> you don't think that's a racial comment? >> no. >> you don't think that creepy ass cracker is a racial comment? >> no. >> george zimmerman didn't testify on his own behalf, but perhaps he didn't need to. throughout the trial, we heard seven statements from zimmerman about the shooting and one of them was captured on video. a re-enactment he did with investigators, one day after he shot and killed trayvon martin. >> felt like my body was on the grass and my head was on the cement and just kept slamming and slamming, and i just -- i kept yelling help, help, help. put his hand on his nose, on my nose, and his other hand on my m
. >> and, of course, the star witness for the prosecution, rachel jeantel, trayvon martin's friend, who was defiant and later criticized for her attitude in court. we want to warn you, some of the language you're about to hear may be offensive. >> describe iing the person is t made you think it was racial? >> yes. >> and that's because he described him as a creepy ass cracker? >> yes. >> so it was racial, but it was because trayvon martin put race in this?...
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once rachel jeantel used that word and indicated that the one that was driven by that may have been trayvon and not george and i get trayvon is a 17-year-old and he may not have been driven by race, but they abandoned it. she still threw it out there at the end. this was a case that should never, ever have been brought. the system was hijacked. the prosecutors every day across america, we see it all of the time as judges and lawyers and it happens when there are defendants are black. it happens when defendants are white. if they have a case and they can't make it and look at the evidence and we say i'm sorry to the victim's family, we know you want us to prosecute and we cannot prove this case because we don't have enough evidence. >> you know this process has been politically hijacked and you're not sequestered like the jury is and have to deal with the political fallout publicly. how difficult does it make your job as a judge in a case like this? >> it makes judge nelson an uncomfortable position and whether she wants to grant the judgment of acquittal in a political dynamite case where s
once rachel jeantel used that word and indicated that the one that was driven by that may have been trayvon and not george and i get trayvon is a 17-year-old and he may not have been driven by race, but they abandoned it. she still threw it out there at the end. this was a case that should never, ever have been brought. the system was hijacked. the prosecutors every day across america, we see it all of the time as judges and lawyers and it happens when there are defendants are black. it happens...